Steve Lorek

Installing Pygments 1.4 on MacOS X

I'm using Jekyll to power my blog. It's a very simple framework which lends itself perfectly to developers used to coding files and the Git workflow, and comes without any of the bloat required for a client-facing CMS.

Jekyll comes with built-in support for Pygments; a syntax highlighter supporting hundreds of languages. This article details the officially supported method for installing Pygments 1.4 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. You will need to have Python installed already—this is provided by the Mac OS X Developer Tools—and you'll need to be logged into an administrator account.